“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Standard Name: Taylor, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Coles
Married Name: Elizabeth Taylor
ET
published, during the mid to late twentieth century, twelve novels, four collections of short stories, and a handful of essays. As a writer of high calibre whose favourite effects are built on understatement and irony, she has been persistently undervalued by commentators.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Olivia Manning | This book evoked a double-edged response from Ivy Compton-Burnett
who, writing to Elizabeth Taylor
, said: It really is full of very good descriptions. Quite excellent descriptions. I don't know if you care for descriptions... |
| Literary responses | Betty Miller | Her Times obituary might be regarded as damning her novels with faint praise. It called her essentially a feminine novelist—using the epithet with no derogatory connotation—applying her talent to sensitive explorations of feeling. |
| Reception | Samuel Beckett | Novelist Elizabeth Taylor
boldly took her older friend Ivy Compton-Burnett
to this play, and was rewarded with Compton-Burnett's pronouncement, Not a play to miss. qtd. in Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 96 |
| Textual Features | A. S. Byatt | Her selection (limited to English, not merely British, writers) determinedly eschews the well-known. She seeks the startling and the satisfying, selecting both lesser-known writers like Leonora Carrington
or Elizabeth Taylor
, and unexpected stories... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Jolley | Mr. Scobie's Riddle is a black comedy set in a nursing home: one of EJ
's only two novels to have a male narrator-protagonist. Its ironically humorous tone salvages a story whose dark topic had... |
| Textual Production | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her ten anthologiesedited during the 1920s (some of them under pseudonyms such as Leonard Gray) had some significance for the writing of that decade, since they incorporated contributions from, for instance, Marghanita Laski
,... |
| Textual Production | Susan Hill | The anthology of British women writers she published in 1990 with Michael Joseph
as The Parchment Moon: An Anthology of Modern Women's Short Stories was reprinted the following year as The Penguin Book of Modern... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
collaborated with Arthur Helps on Bettina: A Portrait, about Elizabeth von Arnim
, in 1957. Helps, a professional translator, had drafted this biography, but it badly needed shaping and structuring. Collaboration was difficult... |
| Textual Production | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The BBC
did a pre-publication adaptation by Christopher Sykes
: before the book appeared ICB
's friend Elizabeth Taylor
called it the new short BBC novel. qtd. in Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 63 Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 244 |
| Textual Production | Ethel M. Dell | EMD
published The Top of the World, a novel later quoted by Elizabeth Taylor
in her Angel, 1957. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Taylor, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Angel, edited by Paul Bailey, Virago, 1989, p. v - ix. vi |
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